The sound a raging crowd makes is nothing like music. No matter how loud it is music still has a form and flows with rhythm, tone, and meter. Crowd noise is a formless wave of sound, a pure cacophony.

They should use white noise/static blasting through the speakers, which would be a much closer simulation to what they’ll face on Sunday night.

That type of constant nail-on-a-chalkboard din degrades an opponent both physically and psychologically, so preparing for that IS something that is very important, and let’s face it; virtually no team really deals with Seattle’s noise or any other stadium that gets blasting loud, well at all.

I’ve always been sorry that 49ers fans have never noticed the amazing effect they have on the apposing team when they’re on their feet and raging (not waving stupid flags or towels) and also that the team doesn’t do more to demand that from the Candlestick crowd.

That stadium is built for blasting sound, with the east side one unbroken mountain of humanity unlike any other stadium in the league, and the entire venue built as a bowl with no open ends. When the crowd really gets roaring at the ‘Stick the apposing team simply cannot function, and we’ve seen that over & over though the years, including last week. When the crowd is going hard at the beginning and usually at the end teams usually fail, but traditionally the 49ers crowd settles down after the second or third possession and teams begin executing better, which we saw last week.

I’m a part of that crowd every week as well and I could do better myself, but it takes everyone bought in throughout the game, the way they are in Seattle with that silly but VERY effective “12th Man” bit.

With the way Candlestick is built, if the crowd roared the way the Seattle crowd does opponents would not be able to function and the 49ers would go 8+ – 0 at home. The new place won’t have the same effect, as it’s built differently and has open ends (and an older, softer crowd almost certainly) but the louder it will be in there the better the 49ers will play, no matter how the venue is built.

That 12th man bit is Seattle’s best feature, and it won’t sound like AC/DC or Metallica or whoever, and it WILL hurt the 49ers.

But they’re good enough to win anyway.

GO NINERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Niner

Forrest Greg, Dikta and parcels all hated Walsh. They called him the professor, genius and other condescending names because he wanted to use intelligence vs brawn like a boxer does. He kicked their az. To be champions we need to beat any challengers, right now it’s Seattle. I hope last years debacle gives them fire to redeem themselves. Go 49ers!

Uhhhh

Were you trying to troll Harbaugh the whole time? The last question slays me.